Wednesday, 10 April 2013

MEET THE CAST...

Part of the idea behind Drowntown was to produce a story with an almost Dickensian-sized cast, featuring characters from every strata of society, top to bottom. Over-ambitious as usual, we're nowhere near that so far, though it is only Book 1. Here's an introduction to some of our main players, tweaked slightly from the original outline we put together. Some of them would be fun to go for a beer with, others you'd be worried about making it home alive: Alexandra
Bastet: The Empress of the Underworld,
frighteningly intelligent and utterly ruthless. A master of Machiavellian
manipulation, always at least one step ahead of her enemies. A beautiful, but
terrifying angel of vengeance, on a relentless quest for retribution.

Alexandra Bastet: Deadlier Than The Male

Leo Noiret: A downbeat, down-at-heel, down-at-everything Minder and hard-luck hero, who - no matter how much he tries to ignore it - remains plagued by the small diamond of conscience that stubbornly exists within him. Survival in Drowntown would be a hell of a lot easier without a conscience.

Leo Noiret: Hard-Luck Hero

Gina
Cassell: A tough, sexy, cocky, reckless,
irreverently humoured young adventurer - streetwise but with a touch of
innocence - who uses her breathtaking skills with the hydro-bike and intimate
knowledge of the flooded London
streets to earn a precarious living as a courier/smuggler.

Gina Cassell: Hydro-Biker Courier

Vincent
Drakenberg: The heir apparent to the Drakenberg
Corporation, the world leader in both genetic engineering and environmental
technology. A handsome playboy whose own romantic streak is under threat from
the blunt pragmatism instilled in him by his father, an advocate of ‘kill or be
killed’.

Vincent Drakenberg: Cool As They Come

Jeremy
Twisden: A corrupt, but undoubtedly charismatic –
albeit in a ‘man you love to hate’ vein – politician. A bloated, blustering,
but genuinely cunning schemer – Boris Johnson rolled into Michael Winner with
maybe a touch of Brian Cox (actor, not scientist) hamming it up villainously.